Vincent Valentine is a dark, brooding, and sardonic man whose heart has been numbed by a tragic love (he loved Lucrescia Crescent, and she saved him after he was shot by Hojo when Vincent discovered that Lucrescia was part of an experiment (the Jenova project, from which Sephiroth was born) implanting in his body one of the weapons (the most lethal weapon: chaos) and the protomateria into Vincent to control chaos), Vincent is a former Turk gunman who was experimented on by Hojo approximately thirty years before the start of the game, and consequently failed to age and developed superhuman abilities and characteristics. Cloud and the others eventually discover him sleeping inside a coffin in the basement of the Shinra Mansion, where he joins them in their quest. (Vincent also starred in his own game, Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus for the Playstation 2.)
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